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casey jones

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1. Jones, Casey Jones, John Luther Jonesnoun

   United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)

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1. Casey Jones

   Casey Jones is a song by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The music was written by Jerry Garcia, and the lyrics are by Robert Hunter. Hunter stated in a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone that "Casey Jones" didn't start out as a song, it just suddenly popped into my mind: "driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones, you better watch your speed." I just wrote that down and I went on to whatever else I was doing, and some time later I came across it and thought, "That's the germ of a pretty good song." The song first appeared on the Dead's 1970 album Workingman's Dead. Subsequently it was included on a number of their live albums. The Grateful Dead played "Casey Jones" in concert on a regular basis from June 1969 through October 1974. After that, they continued playing it live, but less often. In total they performed the song in concert more than 300 times."Casey Jones" is about a railroad engineer who is on the verge of a train wreck due to his train going too fast, a sleeping switch man, and another train being on the same track and headed for him. Jones is described as being "high on cocaine" (the song even makes a double entendre of advising Jones to "watch his speed"). It was inspired by the story of an actual engineer named Casey Jones. The engineer's exploits were also sung of in an earlier folk song called "The Ballad of Casey Jones", which the Grateful Dead played live several times.

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1. casey jones

   Casey Jones is a historical figure, an American railroad engineer from the late 1800s, best known for his actions to prevent a major train accident in 1900. Choosing to stay on a crashing train, he saved all the passengers at the cost of his own life. His heroism was immortalized in various songs, books and movies. Casey Jones is also a pseudonym often used for railroad engineers in the United States.

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1. Casey Jones

   Jonathan Luther "John" "Casey" Jones was an American railroad engineer from Jackson, Tennessee, who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad. As a boy, he lived near Cayce, Kentucky, where he acquired the nickname of "Cayce," which he chose to spell as "Casey." On April 30, 1900, he alone was killed when his passenger train, the Cannonball Express, collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi, on a foggy and rainy night. His dramatic death, trying to stop his train and save lives, made him a hero; he was immortalized in a popular ballad sung by his friend Wallace Saunders, an African-American engine wiper for the IC.

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1. casey jones

   Song lyrics by casey jones -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by casey jones on the Lyrics.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of casey jones in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of casey jones in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of casey jones in a Sentence

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   I’ve been praying a lot, it ’ll be a bit of a challenge, but everybody’s in tune that we do need to be aware. Now, we don’t want that to mar anybody’s great time, and the only real requirement that we have if you come to Casey Jones Distillery is that you keep your sense of humor.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones
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4. ^ Wikidata
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